Until they make us stop.

I've come to a very interesting conclusion.

Remember when I was complaining about having to switch the blog I have for multimedia storytelling over to a gmail account? I had signed up using a yahoo e-mail, while this particular blog uses a hotmail account. I didn't have to switch this blog to a gmail account.

I had been wondering why until today when something occured to me: Google and Yahoo are competitors, but no one gives a rat's butt about hotmail.

I'm the victim of a turf war between two Internet gangs...er, companies. I've been caught up in the crossfire as I'm sure many other blogger users have been. Who knows how many people have had to pay the price of this war? I say to google and yahoo, bring the troops home, end this unjust occupation and learn to work together.

The real issue here, I think, is that people assume the Internet is this wonderful, unfettered virtual land of the free, when it's not going to be that way forever. I hate to sound like a hippie whining about the tentacles of the corporate machine but...BEWARE! the tentacles of the corporate machine because they're out to control the Internet.

Sure, right now it's just google being a jerk about who's e-mail you sign up with blogger on, but once google crushes all other search providers it'll be google, and the people who own google, who dictate what you get to see on the Internet.

Next thing you know, you're hooked up to a machine that uses your body heat to harness electricity while your brain is jacked into a virtual reality meant to keep you docile.

Is that something you want, America?